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As Mexican senators weigh a contentious plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary, it appeared Tuesday that the country’s ruling party may get the votes it needs in the Senate to jam through the proposal. The overhaul championed by outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has fueled weeks of protests by judicial employees and law students, who say the plan, which would have all judges elected, would threaten judicial independence and deal a severe blow to the system of checks and balances. Despite the outcry, the plan sailed through the lower chamber of Congress last week, and was passed onto the Senate, where López Obrador's Morena party lacked the necessary supermajority to approve it.
Would she be OK being among the youngest in the class? Amid the rise in redshirting, the thought kept me up at night.
Pastor Frank Bernat's church is 5 miles from Apalachee High School, where four people were gunned down. It's difficult, but he prays for the shooter.
Big bank executives delivered mostly tempered and cautionary comments around the uncertainty of earnings going forward at a conference hosted by Barclays Monday and Tuesday.
A social media campaign by activists has brought the 4-ton orca a following far beyond what might usually be expected at his oceanarium 200 miles from Buenos Aires.
While one-third of millionaires don't consider themselves wealthy, a majority believe they are prepared for retirement.
The U.S. has been reluctant to supply or sanction the use of weapons that could strike targets deep inside in Russia for fear it would escalate the conflict. Kyiv's other allies have been supplying weapons, but with restrictions on how and when they can be used inside Russia, out of concern such strikes could prompt retaliation that draws NATO countries into the war or provokes a nuclear conflict. Sources told Reuters last week that the U.S. was close to an agreement to give Ukraine such weapons, but that Kyiv would need to wait several months as the U.S. works through technical issues ahead of any shipment.
Controversial proposals by Mexico's outgoing president to allow voters to elect judges face a final hurdle Tuesday in Congress, despite mass opposition street protests, diplomatic tensions and investor jitters.The reforms were passed last week in the lower house by ruling party lawmakers and their allies, who were forced to gather in a sports center because access to Congress was blocked by protesters, who returned to the streets on Tuesday.
The US Secret Service official who oversees protective operations of elected officials, foreign dignitaries and high-profile events is retiring this week – marking the second high-ranking official to leave the agency as it grapples with the aftermath of Donald Trump’s near assassination in July.
Oil's main international benchmark fell below $70 per barrel on Tuesday, the first time it has done so since the end of 2021, amid mounting concerns about slowing global growth.Brent crude slumped more than three percent to below the $70 per barrel level, while the main US contract, West Texas Intermediate (WTI), tumbled during trading and closed down more than four percent.
An amendment to restore abortion rights in Missouri will be on the ballot, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
A Michigan judge has ordered beleaguered hip-hop mogul Sean "P. Diddy" Combs to pay out a $100 million judgment to a prison inmate who claimed Combs drugged and sexually assaulted him back in 1997.
Prices and borrowing costs were lower when Trump was president. But it's a different economy now, and we're not going back.
An overnight Israeli airstrike on an area that Israel itself had designated as a humanitarian zone for displaced people in southern Gaza killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, according to local officials in the besieged enclave. Israel said the operation targeted Hamas fighters there.
Italy's foreign minister Tuesday voiced strong support for Western Balkan countries' European Union accession bids, saying that otherwise the region could swing towards Russia or China. Speaking during a visit to North Macedonia, Antonio Tajani said the bloc should “lend a hand to those peoples who want to be with us Europeans.” Tajani said Italy is “working and will work for North Macedonia to be an effective member of the European Union as soon as possible.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson emphasized his agreement with former President Donald Trump on government funding after Trump posted that if congressional Republicans “don’t get absolute assurances on Election Security,” they should vote against a continuing resolution to fund the government.
After the antisemitic outburst during an elections meeting in Georgia, the state's chair denounced the comments.
View the map of Tropical Storm Francine’s path and forecast. The storm is expected to become a hurricane by midweek as it nears the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Speaker Mike Johnson will put his government funding and Trump-backed voting bill up for a vote, despite Republican and Democratic opposition.